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july 1 LEAD ~ STORY I t’s simple. It takes minutes to practice. Healing is miraculous and often in one session. You can do it yourself. There are no side-effects. Applying it causes no physical pain and minimum emotional pain. The perfect panacea? For our times, yes. There may come a time when healing will be even simpler. One may just utter an intention and bingo – the broken bone sets and the asth- ma whistles itself out of your lungs. But for now, this is plenty. Meera Kotak, a workshop trainer and co-founder of Energy Centre, says, “About a couple of months ago I had no sense of purpose and was going through deep sorrow and pain. Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) has restored my sense of purpose and joy. Today, I have hope.” Says Daralyse Lyons, who calls herself the founder of Emotional Yoga, a combination of EFT and yoga, “Using Emotional Yoga, I have recovered from a rampant eating disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, depression, anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder. My life before finding Emotional Yoga felt hopeless and I was institutionalised 18 times at residential treatment facilities for my eating disorder and associated emotional problems. The combination of yoga and EFT has given me lasting emotional freedom.” Brad Yates, a popular EFT practitioner based in the US, whose newsletter has over three mil- lion subscribers, says, “At the first workshop I took – an all-day class with Gary Craig – it was the tapping on chocolate cravings that first hooked me. I’d been a bit of a chocoholic, and after a minute of tapping I had as much inter- est in the candy as I did in the foil wrapper around it. I knew then that there was some- thing to this simple technique.” Nithya Shanti, a young Buddhist monk turned spiritual teacher based in Pune, who is also a votary of EFT, shared that recently a young woman came to meet him along with her mother and brother for help in dealing with the sudden suicide of her father. It was she, in fact, who stumbled upon his body hanging from a fan. After two rounds of practice, she had healed from the trauma of seeing him dead as well as the guilt she felt about his death. And her mother, who was heavily arthritic and had been unable to lift her hands to feed herself or comb her hair, was able to lift her hands to her head. Kshitij Negi, an EFT practitioner based in Mumbai, was attracted to the therapy because it helped him to heal from a break-up. “The love pain would not abate until I tried EFT,” he said. This former scriptwriter for the Hindi film industry took to EFT like a fish to water and later had a wonderful experience of its healing capacities. A friend had been hospi- talised with dengue and his platelet count had slipped to a dangerously low 26,000 (normal counts range from 150,000 to 450,000). All day, Negi worked extensively on him using EFT. “By six I was itching to know the results. Although it was a Sunday, we got a pathology lab to open and we took the results. His platelet count had climbed to 100,000!” Radically simple For big issues and for small; for body and for mind, Emotional Freedom Technique is a radically simple tool that is bringing health and happiness to millions across the globe. Indeed, not since reiki swept through the country like wildfire in the early ‘90s has there been a healing technique with so much potential for self-healing. Unlike reiki, however, it takes just minutes to practice and is simple enough to be grasped even by little children. We live in an age where everything seems to happen quicker and faster including fame, wealth, bankruptcy and disease. It is only fit- ting therefore that healing techniques too should speed up and enable us to access well-

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It’s simple. It takes minutes to practice.

Healing is miraculous and often in one

session. You can do it yourself. There are no

side-effects. Applying it causes no physical

pain and minimum emotional pain.

The perfect panacea? For our times, yes.

There may come a time when healing will be

even simpler. One may just utter an intention

and bingo – the broken bone sets and the asth-

ma whistles itself out of your lungs.

But for now, this is plenty.

Meera Kotak, a workshop trainer and

co-founder of Energy Centre, says, “About

a couple of months ago I had no sense of

purpose and was going through deep sorrow

and pain. Emotional Freedom Technique

(EFT) has restored my sense of purpose and

joy. Today, I have hope.”

Says Daralyse Lyons, who calls herself the

founder of Emotional Yoga, a combination of

EFT and yoga, “Using Emotional Yoga, I have

recovered from a rampant eating disorder,

obsessive compulsive disorder, depression,

anxiety and posttraumatic stress disorder.

My life before finding Emotional Yoga felt

hopeless and I was institutionalised 18 times

at residential treatment facilities for my eating

disorder and associated emotional problems.

The combination of yoga and EFT has given

me lasting emotional freedom.”

Brad Yates, a popular EFT practitioner based

in the US, whose newsletter has over three mil-

lion subscribers, says, “At the first workshop

I took – an all-day class with Gary Craig – it

was the tapping on chocolate cravings that first

hooked me. I’d been a bit of a chocoholic, and

after a minute of tapping I had as much inter-

est in the candy as I did in the foil wrapper

around it. I knew then that there was some-

thing to this simple technique.”

Nithya Shanti, a young Buddhist monk

turned spiritual teacher based in Pune, who

is also a votary of EFT, shared that recently a

young woman came to meet him along with her

mother and brother for help in dealing with the

sudden suicide of her father. It was she, in fact,

who stumbled upon his body hanging from a

fan. After two rounds of practice, she had healed

from the trauma of seeing him dead as well

as the guilt she felt about his death. And her

mother, who was heavily arthritic and had been

unable to lift her hands to feed herself or comb

her hair, was able to lift her hands to her head.

Kshitij Negi, an EFT practitioner based in

Mumbai, was attracted to the therapy because

it helped him to heal from a break-up. “The

love pain would not abate until I tried EFT,”

he said. This former scriptwriter for the Hindi

film industry took to EFT like a fish to water

and later had a wonderful experience of its

healing capacities. A friend had been hospi-

talised with dengue and his platelet count had

slipped to a dangerously low 26,000 (normal

counts range from 150,000 to 450,000). All

day, Negi worked extensively on him using

EFT. “By six I was itching to know the results.

Although it was a Sunday, we got a pathology

lab to open and we took the results. His platelet

count had climbed to 100,000!”

Radically simpleFor big issues and for small; for body and for

mind, Emotional Freedom Technique is a

radically simple tool that is bringing health and

happiness to millions across the globe. Indeed,

not since reiki swept through the country like

wildfire in the early ‘90s has there been a

healing technique with so much potential for

self-healing. Unlike reiki, however, it takes just

minutes to practice and is simple enough to be

grasped even by little children.

We live in an age where everything seems

to happen quicker and faster including fame,

wealth, bankruptcy and disease. It is only fit-

ting therefore that healing techniques too

should speed up and enable us to access well-

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being in minutes.

EFT is part of a cluster

of therapies that go under

the blanket term of Energy

Psychology that is redefining

the use of therapy in healing.

Energy Psychology (EP) works

directly on the body to produce

psychological change. Instead

of exclusively engaging in talk,

Energy Psychology uses affir-

mations as well as techniques

such as tapping or massages

at certain points of the body

to help release blocks in the

body’s energy systems. The

combination of recall of past

traumas coupled with physical

stimulation has produced star-

tling and permanent relief for

thousands of people.

Energy Psychology’s most

outstanding characteristic is

the remarkable speed both of

practice and of healing.

I recently participated in a

workshop on EFT by Jasmine

Bharathan, considered to be one of the

most senior and respected of EFT thera-

pists in India, and was amazed to discover

how quickly traumas, fears and physical

afflictions lifted.

One of the participants, Bina Gehi, a fash-

ion designer, complained of a severe shoulder

and neck pain that had been afflicting her for

the last three years. After ten minutes of tap-

ping with Jasmine, who addressed both the

physical symptoms as well as the underlying

emotional contributors, the pain had com-

pletely lifted. Bina could not stop smiling for

the rest of the workshop. When last checked

within days of going to press, she was still free

of the pain.

Another par t i c ipant , Manjushr i

Dandekar, was so traumatised by the che-

motherapy treatment for her breast cancer

that she had a horror of even passing a hos-

pital, let alone visiting one. Within a few

minutes of tapping, the smiling Manjushri

confirmed that her fear had been released

by about 90 per cent.

Redefining psychologyIndeed, in many ways, Energy Psychology is

turning upside down some of the treasured

precepts of conventional psychology.

Lengthy periods of time are not necessary

to process underlying emotional issues,

major traumas or childhood conditioning.

It can happen in a few sessions or maybe

even in one. Says Brad Yates, “There was

one woman who was able to let go of

the traumatic feelings from a 20-year-

old episode of molestation in a matter of

minutes, and I recall another woman who

was able to laugh at how her husband served

her divorce papers (on her birthday!).”

And yet the very simplicity and ease of

EFT often go against it. Many conventional

therapists still dismiss it as one more New

Age fad. And seekers, used to more mental

methods of processing emotion, give it

the go by because they cannot believe that

anything so simple and so fast can be trusted

to deliver lasting results.

Says Robert E Najemy, a highly respect-

ed spiritual teacher and life coach based in

Athens, Greece, “I had initially rejected TFT

(the source of EFT) for 18 years as I believed

that emotions could not be let go of so eas-

ily. Then after 18 years, I decided that my

approach was not a scientific one and that I

needed to try it before rejecting it. It worked

extremely well – we were able to reduce

or eliminate long-standing emotions and

also physical pain.”

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Says Sangeeta Bhagwat, a Pune-based

counsellor who works extensively with

EFT, “When I first read the (EFT) manual,

it sounded too simple and too good to be

true. However, I tried it on a senior citizen

who had a troubling eczema for 15 years.

The itch, oozing and irritation immedi-

ately subsided within a couple of rounds

of tapping. After three weeks of daily tap-

ping rounds, his entire skin was restored to

a completely healthy state. Skin problems

are challenging and this was a miraculous

recovery in my opinion.”

EFT was founded by Gary Craig, a

Stanford-educated engineer, performance

coach and ordained minister who was

concerned by the slow, expensive and

often ineffectual treatments available for

emotional and mental healing. With an

engineer’s zeal, he set out to overhaul the

system and soon came in contact with

Thought Field Therapy (TFT), which is

the source of EFT.

TFT was founded by Dr Roger Callahan,

a clinical psychologist. Dr Callahan, an acu-

puncture enthusiast, was once seeing a patient

when she complained of stomach pain. Dr

Callahan suggested that she tap under her eye,

which according to acupuncture, is one of the

meridians governing the stomach. When she

did so, not only did her stomach pain dis-

appear but so did her fear of water, which

fact she dramatically illustrated by jumping

straight away into the pool.

The astute doctor recognised that he was

on to something and eventually came out

with TFT. However, the therapy is slightly

cumbersome, requiring tapping on many

points and also following it up with muscle

testing. Gary Craig streamlined the pro-

cess and came out with a compact 13- or

14-point tapping schedule, which is also

accompanied by an affirmation.

What is EFT?EFT, like acupuncture, believes that energy

flows through meridians within the body.

Negative emotions can cause energy blocks

points to ponder

Here are the points that you need to tap on after checking your sUD and uttering the set-up phrase three times for what is

called the Full Basic recipe. two rounds are needed.For the short-cut technique, stop at under the armpit.

Tapping sequence:Using your index and middle fingertips, tap gently, but firmly, five to seven times on each of the points give below as shown. remem-ber to repeat the reminder phrase once at each of these points as you tap.• Eyebrow point is located just below and inside the inner starting

edge of your eyebrow.• side of the eye is the bony part of your eye socket adjacent to the

outer edge of your eye.• Under the eye is located below the centre of your eye. • Under the nose is the area between your nose and upper lip• Chin refers to the indented area just below your lower lip.• Collarbone actually refers to the end of the collarbone, to the

immediate left and right of the hollow at the base of your throat.• Under the arm is the area on your side, about three to four inches

below your armpit, in line with your breast.• side of thumb, near base of nail• side of index finger near base of nail.• side of middle finger near base of nail.• side of little finger near base of nail• Karate chop point at the side of your palm • Crown of the head or CH is located at the apex of your skull, half-

way between an imaginary line joining the two ears. Be gentle at this point.

the gamut procedure is followed in between the two tapping rounds. the gamut point is located just above the midpoint of the knuckle between the little and ring finger. Whilst tapping this, do the following:• Close your eyes• open your eyes• Look down and towards the right, keeping the head steady• Look down and towards the left, keeping the head steady• roll your eyes in a full clockwise circle• roll your eyes in an anticlockwise circle• Hum any song for two seconds• Count rapidly from one to five• Hum any song for two seconds again

Courtesy: Emotional Freedom Techniques by Sangeeta Bhagwat

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within these pathways, resulting in anxiety,

stress, phobias and eventually physical ail-

ments. By gently tapping on the acupressure

points along the meridians and focus-

ing on the negative emotion, the energy

block is removed, energy moves freely

and the patient experiences emotional

and physical relief.

Here is how EFT works. Assume you have

a problem with stress. While tapping on the

side of your outer palm you not only state

the problem but you also make an affir-

mation like so: “Even though I am feeling

very stressed, I deeply and completely love,

accept and forgive myself.”

This is called the set-up. Although there

are many ways of phrasing the set-up, the

above one is a good default statement and

can be used for almost all situations. After

doing this three times, you tap on a few

points on your face, under the arms and on

your fingers. (see pictures for exact points)

This tapping is accompanied by a statement

of the problem, called the reminder phrase,

which in this case is the stress. The reminder

phrase therefore goes: “Feeling stressed”.

Often, just one round offers substantial

relief but for full relief one must keep tap-

ping until the SUD (intensity of the problem

measured) is zero. That is it. The procedure

takes about a minute a round, which probably

makes it one of the quickest therapies going.

The aspect that appeals most to me and

that drew me to the therapy when I first

heard of it is the set-up phrase. What a com-

forting statement to affirm to oneself! And

how grounded. One is stating the fact of

the matter – how one feels but one is also

at the same time extending an acceptance

of oneself, and by extension, the problem.

A crucial deal fell through for a friend of

mine. I encouraged him to tap on the prob-

lem as well as on his disheartenment. After

doing a round he slowly admitted that he had

not even acknowledged to himself the deep

hurt he had felt when the deal fell through.

Most of us are reluctant to admit consciously

to ourselves what we are actually going

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through. And the seeker, so focused on positivity, is

often deeply reluctant to look at his reality

squarely in the face.

Since almost all emotional and physical

problems are a consequence of non-acceptance,

the set-up phrase actually primes us to let

the problem go.

Why it worksThere is the simplicity of genius in the way EFT

is put together. Tapping involves the body and

the energy system, the affirmation involves the

mind. There is a third process called the 9-gamut

procedure (see box) which is supposed to

address the neurology through a combination of

eye movements, humming to activate the right

brain and counting figures to activate the left

brain. That probably explains its effectiveness.

Says Robert E Najemy, “Tapping on the acupunc-

ture energy points especially on the face, head and

fingers, dissolves the crystallised energy structure

created by our habituated mental and emotional

reactions toward specific events, behaviours or situ-

ations. This allows us to relax, let go, release and gain

access to alternative internal and external reactions

to these stimuli.”

Although as the name suggests, EFT was

meant to heal emotional issues, it soon became

clear that when the emotional cause was lifted,

many physical ailments were healed. “Try it on

everything” was Gary Craig’s breezy advice and

the website www.eftuniverse.com has innumer-

able case histories dealing with physical cures.

Among the most popular categories are pain

management, addictions, weight loss, vision,

allergies, panic/anxiety, asthma, depression,

headaches, dyslexia, ADD-ADHD, phobias, back

pain, blood pressure, and so on.

Dinaz Dastur, a healer who combines EFT

with prayer and her own hands-on heal-

ing technique, shares that when she did EFT

on a client suffering from severe migraine,

she felt such enormous rel ief that she

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went to sleep. When she woke up, the

headache was gone.

Kshitij Negi has helped clients recover from

serious physical ailments. Says he, “I once was

approached by a client from the South who

was suffering from a life-threatening blood

disorder. He says, “As we dug deep, issues kept

appearing which were of such magnitude that

she may not have wanted to live. Tapping on

the issues not just helped heal her illness but

the awareness helped her transform her life.

Though living within the constraints of a joint

family, she healed a dysfunctional relationship

with her sister-in-law and also managed to

create more freedom for herself to move out

of the house.”

Cancer patients have been helped to reduce

the pain and discomfort of chemotherapy and

even Multiple Sclerosis patients have found

their pain considerably checked by EFT.

A spiritual tool?Perhaps because EFT brings together the

body and mind, it ends up tapping at the

door of the soul.

Nithya Shanti became an EFT enthusiast a

few years ago, when he dissolved an issue he

had with someone within a few minutes of

doing EFT. Says he, “I had meditated on

this problem for years and yet it did not

leave me. EFT released it in minutes.”

Says he, “Meditation helps you discov-

er your weaknesses and EFT helps release

them. My level of emotional freedom has

dramatically improved through EFT. My

blind spots and hang-ups have dissolved

and there is much more forgiveness and

awareness. EFT has given me a healing

tool which I feel I can use in any situa-

tion, no matter what.”

Is it possible that EFT can heal us of

all negative conditioning or, in other

words, nudge us to enlightenment?

No one is promising moksha, but most

practitioners believe that there is little in

the emotional field that EFT cannot heal.

Says Robert Najemy: “I know that it works

100 per cent. If we do not get the desired

results it is because we are tapping on the

wrong issue. Or there is an underlying issue

that needs to be removed first. Or we are

not being specific enough. Or the person

subconsciously does not want to get well.”

Says Sangeeta Bhagwat, “We cannot

address the larger questions of life when

we are overwhelmed with emotional or

physical challenges. Clearing these with

regular tapping automatically brings in a

more spiritual interest and maturity in the

person. EFT can also be used for deepening

meditation and increasing awareness, peace

and compassion.”

In her book on EFT, Emotional Freedom

Techniques (Wisdom Tree), Sangeeta

Bhagwat has written a section called SCORE

with EFT where she offers a format to help

the reader do a SWOT analysis on them-

selves, create set-up affirmations for each

of these areas and to do a daily 10-min-

ute session on them. This, in effect, would

be a personal growth practice, helping in

time to strengthen the strengths and weaken

the weaknesses.

Personally, I have found that practising

EFT over the last few months has made

me much more comfortable with myself

and with my emotional states. Whereas

earlier I would affirm tirelessly, “I am

whole, perfect and complete” with EFT

I began to say, “Even though I am not

whole or perfect or complete, I deeply

and completely love and accept myself.” I

also found it useful to combine EFT with

awareness practices. There was a period

when I practised dropping expectations

that I should feel anything other than what I

Gary Craig"The past 15 years result-

ed in an extraordinary journey for all of us and,

with support from the vast majority of you, our

EFT groundswell has been impressive."

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actually felt. Tapping along with these state-

ments made them go deeper, and always gave

me a sense of release.

Phenomenal popularityIt is little wonder then that EFT is spreading

at almost lightning speed across the globe. For

a technique that has been around for only 15

years, its popularity is phenomenal.

According to Dawson Church, who looks

after the website www.eftuniverse.com, “Various

researchers have produced estimates suggest-

ing that there are at least 5 million people

worldwide who know or use EFT, and perhaps

twice that number.”

And an informed estimate places the num-

ber of EFT therapists to around one lakh. India

itself has a large number of practitioners and the

therapy is gaining ground rapidly.

One might ask why one should go to an EFT

practitioner when one can practice the therapy

oneself. To this the answer is that there may be

some complex or long-standing problems you

are unable to resolve yourself. That is when you

turn to a therapist. At the same time, the EFt

community makes it clear that for serious men-

tal disorders such as schizophrenia it is always

better to go to a psychiatrist.

Apart from its simplicity, speed and effec-

tiveness, one of the reasons for EFT’s rapid rise

lies in founder Gary Craig’s unusual generosity.

Instead of clamping a TM on it like most founders

(especially in the US) do, Gary set EFT free into

the world. He set up a website called www.emo-

free.com where he put down all his knowledge.

A free manual to help people learn EFT online

was downloadable and he encouraged both lay-

people and therapists to experiment freely with

it. Gary also brought out a free weekly newsletter

to update users on EFT’s unlimited potential. The

result has been an active and dynamic community

of EFT users who share their resources, air their

mistakes and bond.

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Books, and DVDs on the subject are

numerous as are free videos. Robert

Najemy’s EFT book, Free to be happy with

Energy Psychology, is considered to be one

of the best of its kind.

The road aheadPractitioners and therapists dream freely of

fresh heights for this small wonder.

Says Robert E Najemy, “I hope more

and more people will learn and use it

and it becomes a major instrument for all

psychologists, psychiatrists, doctors, social

workers, body workers, healers and other

health professionals. I hope it is taught in

elementary school as a means of dealing

with fear, anxiety, hurt, anger and other

negative emotions. I hope it is used by all

executives, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists

and other creative persons for removing

obstacles to inspiration and creativity.”

Says Gary Flint, a US-based EFT prac-

titioner, “Presently, EFT is not recognised

by the American Psychological Association

because there are not enough quality

studies demonstrating its effectiveness.

Once these studies are done, it should

become easily recognised as an approved

treatment intervention.”

Dawson Church refutes him: “EFT is

already making inroads in mainstream

mental health care. I’m part of a team

conducting a Randomised Controlled

Trial of EFT at Walter Reed Army Medical

Center in Washington, DC, an enormous

military hospital. EFT is starting to be used

in a few forward-thinking hospitals and

outpatient clinics.”

For the ordinary user, EFT represents, as

Nithya Shanti put it, a healing tool for any

issue that may visit them.

Shalini Rai, a writer and trainer, used EFT

to heal herself of her difficult relationship

with her father. “I used to feel terrorised by

my father’s short temper. I remember that

the family had once gone on a holiday to

Calcutta to visit relatives. I had played a

prank and my father threatened to beat me

up when we got home. I spent the rest of

my holiday cowering at the thought of what

awaited me when I reached home. Nothing

did, because my father had forgotten all

about it, but I have never been able to get

over the fear and resentment it generated.

One session with a therapist healed me so

much that I actually have cultivated a playful

and loving relationship with my father which

I have not been able to in the last 40 years.”

Those who use it in their everyday lives

believe that it acts as daily cleanser, enabling

them to deal with their stuff ongoingly.

Vijayalakshmi Arora, who works in the

UNICEF as a Child Protection Specialist,

says, “EFT has become second nature to me.

It has made me very aware of my thought

processes. For instance, I know when I am

getting angry and am able to stop myself.”

Innovations Thanks to the laissez faire extended by Gary

Craig, EFT innovations are innumerable.

Everyone uses EFT in their own inimitable

ways. Suchitra Parikh, a yoga teacher, uses

EFT in conjunction with yoga to help work

on the emotional issues of her students. Says

she, “There is a type of yoga called kriya

yoga which is a three-step process to over-

come klesha (emotional states). When I

combine EFT with kriya yoga, I find that

the results are faster. In kriya yoga we sug-

gest that the yogi shift from a negative state

to a positive one and eventually to a neu-

tral state. This is an intellectual method but

when accompanied by the naming of the

emotion, the affirmation and the tapping,

I find that people calm down faster.”

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Says Sangeeta Bhagwat, “I describe it to be

like water – it blends with any other method

or healing. I combine it with sound, touch,

visualization, healing essences and have also

developed many different methods and

metaphors for framing the affirmations.”

Even as EFT seems set to storm the

world, its founder, Gary Craig, has quiet-

ly withdrawn from the scene a few weeks

ago. The contents of his website www.

emofree.com, have been transferred to

the new website www.eftuniverse.com

run by Dawson Church. His final words:

“My retirement is now a reality. The past 15

years resulted in an extraordinary journey

for all of us and, with support from the vast

majority of you, our EFT groundswell has

been impressive. I will watch with interest

to see what you do with it from here.”

Dawson Church is gung-ho about its future,

“I expect that as information spreads about

the very rapid improvements EFT produces

for depression, which is the second-most-

costliest condition, and pain, which is the

costliest, governments and organisations will

adopt it as a frontline primary care interven-

tion. I believe we’ll see more EFT in primary

care in 2011, and a tipping point, where it

becomes the ‘new normal’, in 2012.”

So be it.

Interviews of Robert E. Najemy, Brad Yates, Gary Flint and Dawson Church arranged by Jasmine Bharathan [

www.eftuniverse.com, www.heal-empower.comto read these articles online and post your comments, go to

http://www.lifepositive.com/Magazine/July2010We welcome your comments and suggestions on this article.

Mail us at [email protected]

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